1. science
2. social science
3. history

Rewriting
Histories
06.11.–!
20.12.15
Introduktion
Historiske begivenheder regnes
ofte for facts. Fotografiet opfattes ofte som sandt. I dag ved vi
godt, at billeder kan manipuleres.
Alligevel opfatter man instinktivt fotografiske billeder som
troværdige repræsentationer af
virkeligheden. Først et øjeblik
efter kommer man i tanke om, at
nå ja sådan er det ikke nødvendigvis. Ligesom vi altså forestiller
os fotografiet som en objektiv
fremstilling af virkeligheden, har
vi også en tendens til at tænke på
historien som sandfærdig. Men
også historie er afhængig af øjnene, der ser. Eller rettere er udtryk
for en fortolkningsproces.
mellem realitet og konstruktion;
en tvetydighed, der også er
kendetegnende for fotografiet
som sådant.
På Fotografisk Center er vi meget
glade for at kunne vise denne
udstilling, og vil gerne varmt takke
udstillingens to kuratorer Lasse
Lau og Benj Gerdes, assistent
Hannah Fitch samt alle udstillingens kunstnere.
Vi synes det giver rigtig god mening at vise Rewriting Histories i
sammenhæng med filmfestivallen
CPH:DOX og takker især Trine
Fischer og Mads Mikkelsen herfra.
På Fotografisk Center søger vi så
Værkerne på udstillingen
vidt muligt at lade hver udstilling
Rewriting Histories genbesøger
fremstå som en helt ny rumlig ophistoriske begivenheder og under- levelse. Dette er til fulde lykkedes
søger hvad receptionen af fortiden med denne udstilling, hvorfor vi
betyder for opfattelsen af nutiden. gerne vil rette en stor tak til de
Ved at genfortælle historien på
to udstillingsarkitekter bag ideen,
en ny måde og fra et nutidigt
Joel Diamant og Mette Lindberg
perspektiv, peger udstillingens
samt ikke mindst installeringstekunstnere på historien som en!–
maet fra DGI-byen/Øksnehallen
ofte ideologisk!–!konstruktion.
med Morten Brohammer i
!
spidsen. Endelig vil vi gerne
I mange af udstillingens film-,
takke Statens Kunstfond og
video- og foto- værker indgår arki- Københavns Kommune for deres
visk materiale, og således trækker støtte til Fotografisk Center.
udstillingen på en dokumentarisk
tradition og betydningsramme.
Kristine Kern
Ved sin reference til netop det
Leder
dokumentariske med alt hvad
det indbefatter af forestillinger
om sandfærdig objektivisme!–!jvf.
vérité-traditionen!–!spiller udstillingens kunstnere på en dikotomi
Introduction
Historic events are often regarded
as facts. A photo is often taken
for the truth. Today we know quite
well that photos can be manipulated. Nevertheless, photographic
images are instinctively considered as reliable representations of
reality. Only after a moment’s consideration do we realize that, well,
maybe that is not necessarily so.
Just as we imagine that the photo
is an objective representation of
reality, we also have a tendency
to think of history as truthful.
But history is also dependent on
the eyes that see. Or rather, is an
expression of a process of interpretation.
The works in the exhibition,
Rewriting Histories, revisit historical events and examine what the
reception of the past means for
the perception of the present. By
retelling history in a new way, and
from a contemporary perspective,
the exhibiting artists point to
history as an!–!often ideological!–
construction.
In many of the film, video and
photo works, archival material is
included, and thus the exhibition
draws on a documentary tradition
and frame of significance. By its
reference to exactly the documentary aspect, with all that it
includes of notions about truthful
objectivity!–!cf. the vérité tradition!–!the exhibiting artists play on
a dichotomy between reality and
construction; an ambiguity which
is also characteristic of the photo
as such.
At the Photographic Centre we
are very happy to show this exhibition, and we would like to thank
the two curators of the exhibition,
Lasse Lau and Benj Gerdes, curatorial assistant Hannah Fitch as
well as all the artists in the exhibition.
We think it makes good sense
to show Rewriting Histories in
connection with the film festival
CPH:DOX, and we give special
thanks to Trine Fischer and Mads
Mikkelsen from the festival. At the
Photographic Centre we try as far
as possible to let each new exhibition appear as an entirely new
spatial experience. This has been
fully realized with this exhibition,
for which we are especially thankful to the two exhibition architects
behind the idea, Joel Diamant and
Mette Lindberg, and not least the
installation team from the DGIbyen/Øksnehallen led by Morten
Brohammer. Finally we would like
to thank Danish Arts Foundation
and The City of Copenhagen
for their continued support of
Photographic Center.
Kristine Kern
Director
Rewriting Histories
William E Jones, Killed Photographs, 2015
9 Inkjet prints on paper, 20 x 25 cm
Kurateret af
Benj Gerdes & Lasse Lau
Kran Film Collective
“Viden er et spørgsmål om de sociale, historiske
og politiske forhold, hvorunder udsagn eksempelvis
kommer til at tælle som enten sandt eller falsk”
—!Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge
Et stigende antal kunstnere inden for film, video og
fotografi er de senere år begyndt at arbejde med arkivforskning og historiske undersøgelser. I stedet for
at søge efter en historisk, ’objektiv’ sandhed, benytter
kunstnerne bag disse projekter ofte historiske emner
og temaer som afsæt til at gentænke muligheder for
social forandring i ellers fastlåste neo-liberale og kapitalistiske politiske økonomiske systemer. Disse metoder
er på ingen måde nye. Men fremkomsten i det 21.
århundrede af film- og videoessayet som mainstream
medier - snarere end marginale og eksklusive udtryksformer - fremherskende både inden for kunst og i stigende grad også populære på online platforme, er i høj
grad ny. Ligeledes ser vi at video- og billedoptagelser
fra det 19. og 20. århundredes revolutionære bevægelser
Kajsa Dahlberg, A Room of One’s Own /
A Thousand Libraries, 2006, Book piece
nu er veletablerede i billedkunsten. På trods af disse
mediers åbenhed for manipulation, forbliver de paradoksalt nok stadig læst og opfattet som havende et særligt
mellemværende med sandheden. Dette forhold mellem
kameraet og historien, baserer sig ikke så meget på
vores forestillinger om sandheden, som på politiske
påvirkninger og muligheder af fortidens handlinger. På
den ene side finder hele denne værk produktion sted på
baggrund af en bestandig udfoldning af begivenheder
og kriser af global, miljømæssig og politisk karakter. På
den anden side kan man iagttage gen-aktiverede taktikker og organiseringer af revolutionære protester samt
forekomster af nye folkelige mobiliseringer. Med hensyn
til sidstnævnte behøver vi blot at nævne nyere historiske begivenheder som Tahir, Gezi og Zucotti for at få et
glimt af den ustabilitet i vores nutid, som mange kunstnere forsøger at adressere via historiens uregerlige
bagdør. Der opstår ofte en vis forvirring omkring disse
projekter, som forsøger at relatere arkiv med aktivisme
med en tilstedeværelse der er i konstant bevægelse.
Fra Jacques Derridas tekst Archive Fever til Simon
Reynolds Retromania: Popular Culture’s Addiction to
Its Own Past findes der nu en række nutidige, stærke
argumenter mod det forførende ved at bruge historie
som svaret på antagonisme (endnu en gang).
Præsenteret i samarbejde med CPH:DOX, trækker
Rewriting Histories på kunstinstitutionen som en i
sig selv kompliceret agent for det historiske, idet den
fremhæver værker som adresserer historie, subjektivitet
og politisk påvirkning og formidling af kunstnere, der
Robert Ochshorn, A Little Bit More Stable, 2015
HD Video, 3 min
arbejder i snitfladen mellem dokumentarismeisme og
kunst. Udstillingen kaster et nyt blik på Hal Fosters 10
år gamle betragtning i teksten An Archival Impulse
af det øjeblik, hvor kunstværket fjerner sig fra kritisk
at begræde museet som en fejlslagen platform, for i
stedet at foreslå en alternativ orden ”inden for og uden
for museet”. En orden hvormed der sættes spørgsmålstegn i kunstneriske praksis ved de sociale og politiske
genealogier, som nu forsøger at kalde frem fra interne
kampzoner i både historien og kunstinstitutionen. Det
svære spørgsmål omkring udstillinger som denne relaterer sig til et spørgsmål om hvordan man vurderer værker, der, til trods for at de kun er få år gamle, stammer
fra et markant anderledes politisk øjeblik?
Vi præsenterer en række forskningsbaserede kunstpraksisser påbegyndt - og i mange tilfælde færdigg jort - før
for eksempel det arabiske forårs politiske forandringer.
Nu, hvor disse store folkemobiliseringer tilsyneladende
har slået fejl eller er sat på pause, er spørgsmålet, om
kunstnere fortsat vil finde disse arbejdsmetoder overbevisende og brugbare? Hvorledes stiller vi ovennævnte
spørgsmål, mens vi samtidig anerkender de sidste tiårs
mange vigtige ideer, som kunstnere, filmmagere og historikere har kæmpet for at synliggøre; de mange beretninger om undertrykkelse og marginalisering? Nutidens
skiftende pres og påvirkninger rummer udbredt undertrykkelse og modstand, som bidrager til at komplicere
samfundets reception af disse kunstprojekter: Det ene
øjeblik bliver de modtaget positivt som oprørske og
stærke, det næste anset som tilbagestående former for
flugt og nostalgi fra mere presserende spørgsmål.
Vi har således valgt dette brydningstidspunkt til at
præsentere disse kunstneriske undersøgelser. Når vi
samler dem i en udstilling er spørgsmålet, hvad vi kan
lære af den resonans og dissonans, som fremkommer
i og med deres rumlige og tematiske tilstedeværelse?
Generelt set overbeviser disse værker os både som
fysiske objekter og som allegoriske møder. De inviterer
beskueren til at overveje, hvordan kulturen producerer
mening og viden, og de opfordrer publikum til ikke alene
at være modtagere af historie, men også deltagere i og
redskaber for den fremtidige historieskrivning.
Rewriting Histories
Michelle Dizon, Civil Society, 2008
3-channel SD video installation, 37 min
Curated by
Benj Gerdes & Lasse Lau
Kran Film Collective
“Knowledge is a matter of the social, historical, and
political conditions under which, for example, statements come to count as true or false”
—!Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge
In recent years an increasing number of artists working
in film, video, and photography have turned to archival
research and investigations into historical memory.
Rather than searching for an obscured objective truth,
these projects often share an interest in utilizing
historical topics and themes to rethink possibilities
for social change in the often gridlocked political and
economic regimes of contemporary neoliberal societies.
While these techniques are by no means new, the 21st
century emergence of the film/video essay and image
appropriation as mainstream rather than marginal
forms and tools!—!prevalent within art and increasingly
popular on online video platforms!—!is very new indeed.
Camera-based moving and still images, those privileged
repositories of the foment and failure of 19th and 20th
century revolutionary movements and moments, are
now well-established within art. Despite the present
cultural awareness of these media’s almost completely
manipulable, there remains a paradoxical “special relationship” between the camera and history, perhaps
no longer resting on our notions of truth but instead
political affect and potentiality, the glimpses and re-animations of actions and aspirations past which resonate.
All this production takes place amid the backdrop of
a perpetually unfolding series of global ecological and
political crises, on the one hand, alongside the re-energized tactics and organization of insurrectionary
protests and massive popular mobilizations on the
other. For the latter, we need only consider the names
of historical becoming in our moment!—!Tahir, Gezi,
Zucotti!—!to glimpse the instability of the very present
many of these artists would seek to address via the
obstreperous backdoor of history, and therefore the
confusion that might surround any project attempting
to relate archive to activism. This exhibition examines
the question of why history remains worth revisiting,
especially now? From Jacques Derrida’s Archive Fever
to Simon Reynold’s Retromania: Popular Culture’s
Addiction to Its Own Past, there exist a number of recent powerful counter-arguments to the seductions of
returning to history as the answer (once again).
Presented in conjunction with the Copenhagen
International Documentary Film Festival, Rewriting
Histories draws on the singular space of the museum,
itself an often complicated agent of historicization, to
highlight works addressing history, subjectivity, and
political agency by artists working at the intersection of
documentary and art. It revisits Hal Foster’s decade-old
observation in An Archival Impulse of a moment where
art works have departed from critically mourning the
museum as a failed platform for artistic display, and
now want to suggest an alternative kind of ordering,
“within the museum and without,” to question the social and political trajectories this broadly aligned set of
artistic practices attempts to call forth today from inside the conflictual grounds of both history and the art
institution. The difficult question surrounding this exhibition relates to a second-order displacement, that of
Andrea Geyer, I know I said, 2012- ongoing
Inkjet prints on paper, 80 x 120cm
the recent past: how to consider works which, although
only a few years old, arise from a markedly different
political moment? As we present research-based art
practices initiated and in many cases realized before the
political changes of the Arab Spring, for example, now
that many of these massive popular mobilizations seem
to have failed or are on hiatus, will artists continue to
find these compelling and useful modes in which to
work? How do we ask such questions while at the same
time recognizing the many important inventions and
struggles over recent decades by artists, filmmakers,
and historians to make visible for the first time so many
histories of oppression and marginalization? The shifting urgencies and affects of the present, as it is one of
both widespread repression and resistance, complicate
our relationship to these projects: one moment they
may resonate as insurrectionary and powerful, the next
as almost a form of refuge or retreat from more pressing questions. We are then at a very timely moment to
consider these artistic investigations. As we assemble
them together in an exhibition, what can we learn from
the points of resonance and dissonance that emerge
through their spatial and thematic adjacency? Broadly,
these works compel us as both practical objects and
allegorical encounters. They invite the viewer to consider the cultural production of meaning and knowledge
and call upon them not as recipients of history, but as
agents of the future.
Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire, The Wave, 2012
HD Video, 20 min
Regina José Galindo, Tierra (Earth), 2013
HD Video, 33 min
Akram Zaatari, Letter to a Refusing Pilot, 2013
34 min
Naeem Mohaiemen, Afsan’s Long Day, 2014
39 min, HD Video
Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei
74!–!The reconstitution of a struggle, 2012
95 min, HD Video
Events
Lasse Lau & Benj Gerdes
Artist talk
Akram Zaatari
Film
Søn 8.11. kl. 14.00 / Sun 8.11. 7pm
Tirs 24.11. kl. 17.00 / Tues 24.11. 5pm
Collective Practices!–!16Beaver, CUDI,
Camel Collective, Kran Film Collective
Video in Five Movements, 2008, 8 min
No dialogue.
Robert Ochshorn
Artist talk
Tirs 10.11. kl. 17.00 / Tues 10.11. 5pm
Screens – Control and Illusion for
The Video Interface
Naeem Mohaiemen
Film
Letter to a Refusing Pilot, 2013, 34 min,
Arabic, English Subtitles
Lin + Lam
Film
Tors 26.11. kl. 17.00 / Thurs 26.11. 5pm
After Engelman, 2015, 12 min, HD Video
English, No Subtitles
Unidentified Vietnam No.18, 2007,
30 min, 16mm, English, No Subtitles
Ons 11.11. kl. 17.00 / Wed 11.11. 5pm
Rankin Street, 1953, 2013, 8 min, SD Video
Der Weisse Engel, 2011, 8 min, HD Video
Afsan’s Long Day, 2014, 39 min, HD Video
Inuk Silis Høegh
Film
Sarah Vanagt
Film
Tirs 1.12. Kl. 17.00 / Tues 1.12. 5pm
Dust Breeding, 2013, 47 min, HD Video,
Serbian/English, English Subtitles
Q&A with director Sarah Vanagt
Tors 12.11. kl. 17.00 / Thurs 12.11. 5pm
Sumé!–!Lyden af en revolution / Sume Mumisitsinerup Nipaa, 2014, 73 min, HD
Video, Greenlandic/Danish,
English subtitles
Stéphane Gérard
Film
Q&A with producer Emile Peronard
History Doesn't Have to Repeat Itself,
2014, 84 min, HD Video,
English, French Subtitles
Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei
Film
Tors 19.11. kl. 17.00 / Thurs 19.11. 5pm
74!–!The reconstitution of a struggle,
2012, 95 min, HD Video,
Arabic, English Subtitles
Q&A with director Rania Rafei
Ons 9.12. kl. 17.00 / Wed 9.12. 5pm
Q&A with director Stéphane Gérard
Biographies
Akram Zaatari (b. 1966 in Saida, Lebanon)
lives in Beirut, Lebanon working as a video
artist and curator. He bases his work on
collecting, studying, and archiving the
photographic history of the Middle East.
Zaatari studied at The American University
of Beirut and The New School University
New York, USA. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennial, Italy; the Modern
Museum of Art, New York; Moderna
Museet, Sweden; and Sfeir-Semler Gallery,
Germany, among others.
Anders Jørgensen lives in Copenhagen,
Denmark. Jørgensen is currently the head
of Digital Repurposing at the Danish Film
Studio. He studied at the Department
of Film and Media Science, University of
Copenhagen and Department of Visual
Arts, University of California, San Diego.
From 1997!–!2005 he collaborated with Pia
Arke on documentaries and installations.
Andrea Geyer (b. 1971 in Freiburg,
Germany) lives in New York, USA working
as a video artist and photographer. Her
work addresses the construction and politics of time in the intersection of politics,
culture and history. Geyer studied at the
University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld,
the Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig,
Germany, and the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program,
USA. Her work has been exhibited at the
Modern Museum of Art, New York; Tate
Modern, London; and the Athens Biennale,
Greece, among others.
Benj Gerdes (b. in 1978 in Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania, USA) lives in New York, USA
working as an artist, writer, and organizer.
He is interested in intersections of radical politics, knowledge production, and
popular imagination. Gerdes studied at
Brown University, Hunter College, the City
University of New York, and the Whitney
Museum of American Art Independent
Study Program, USA. His work has been
exhibited at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C.; the New Museum, New
York; and Tate Modern, London, among
others.
Benjamin Tiven (b. 1978 New York, USA)
lives in New York working as an artist and
writer. He studied at the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) and
the Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program, USA. Tiven’s
work has been exhibited at Institute
of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania;
Henningsen Gallery, Denmark; and Milano
International Film Festival, Italy, among
others.
H. Lan Thao Lam (b. 1968 in My Tho,
Vietnam) lives in New York woking as a
visual artist. Inspired by a particular site,
historical incident, or political issue, Lin
+ Lam (Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam)
collect research in the form of interviews,
archival materials, and found objects. Lam
studied at the California Institute of the
Arts and has been a Whitney Museum
Independent Study Fellow, USA. Lam’s
work has been exhibited at the Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts, San Francisco; and the New
Museum, New York, among others.
Inuk Silis Høegh (b. 1972 in Qaqortoq,
Greenland) lives in Greenland working as
a film director and artist. He has produced
and directed a number of short films,
music videos, documentaries and commercials. Høegh studied at the University
of Bristol and the Royal Danish School of
Visual Arts. His work has been shown in
many international film festivals.
Jennifer Hayashida (b. 1973 in Oakland,
California, USA) lives in New York, USA
working as an artist and writer. Her work
is centered on dislocation, translation,
intertextuality, and memory. Hayashida
studied at Bard College, New York and The
University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her
work has been exhibited at Artist Space,
New York; Images Festival Toronto; and
Red Cat, Los Angeles, among others.
Kajsa Dahlberg (b. 1973 in Gothenburg,
Sweden) lives in Berlin working as a visual
artist. Her work investigates how narratives are constructed and mediated in
relation to political representation, history
and identity, but also how they relate to
the medium itself. Dahlberg studied at
the Nordic Art School in Kokkola, Finland,
the Malmö Art Academy, Sweden and
the Whitney Museum of American Art
Independent Study Program, USA. Her
work has been exhibited at Museum of
Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark;
Parra & Romero, Spain; and Malmö Art
Museum, Sweden, among others.
Katya Sander (b. in 1970) lives in
Copenhagen and Berlin working as a conceptual artist. She works with architecture,
interventions, text, and films that explore
the influence of the imaginary on political
issues, everyday life, and language. Sander
studied at the Copenhagen University,
the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
Denmark and the Whitney Museum of
American Art Independent Study Program,
USA. Her work has been exhibited at Tate
Modern, London; Red Cat, Los Angeles;
and Project Art Space, Dublin, among
others.
Katrien Vermeire (b. in 1976) lives in
Belgium working as a photographer and
film artist. Vermeire studied at Ghent
University, Belgium and the Royal Academy
of Fine Arts in Ghent. Her work has been
exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Belgium; Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam;
and the Biennale of Sydney, Australia,
among others.
Lana Lin (b. 1966 in Montreal, Canada)
lives in New York working as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Lin’s collaboration with
Lam brings together their backgrounds in
architecture, photography, sculpture, installation and time-based media. Lin studied
at Bard College (MFA) and New York
University (PhD), and has been a Whitney
Museum Independent Study Fellow. Lin’s
work has been exhibited at Museum of
Modern Art, New York; Gasworks, London;
and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival,
Germany, among others.
Lasse Lau (b. 1974 in Sønderborg,
Denmark) lives in Copenhagen and New
York, USA working as a visual artist and
filmmaker. His projects often function
as a mediator and channel of crises and
displacements that occur by frictions of
reason in-between absolute, relative or
relational spaces. Lau studied at the Funen
Art Academy, Denmark and the Whitney
Museum of American Art Independent
Study Program, USA. His work has been
exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof, Germany;
Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark; and the
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, among
others.
Matthew Buckingham (b. 1963 in Nevada,
Iowa) lives in New York, USA working as
a visual artist. Utilizing photography, film,
video, audio, writing and drawing, his work
questions the role that social memory
plays in contemporary life. Buckingham
studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the
University of Iowa, Bard College (MFA),
and the Whitney Museum of American
Art Independent Study Program, USA.
His work has been exhibited at Camden
Arts Centre, London; The Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.; and Museum
Moderner Kunst, Austria, among others.
Michelle Dizon (b. 1977 in Los Angeles,
USA) lives in Los Angeles, USA working
as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Her
works take the form of multi-channel
video installations, expanded cinema
performances, essay films, photographs,
discursive events, and writing. Dizon
studied at the University of California,
Los Angeles (MFA) and the University of
California, Berkeley (Ph.D.), USA. Her work
has been exhibited at Oakland Museum,
Oakland; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Philippines; and Sumaryo Art Space,
Indonesia, among others.
Naeem Mohaimen (b. 1969 in Bangladesh)
lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh and New York,
USA working as a writer and visual artist.
He uses essays, photography, film, and
archives to explore borders, wars, and
belonging in post-partition South Asia.
Mohaimen studied at Oberlin College,
Ohio, USA and Columbia University, New
York. His work has been exhibited at
Museum of Modern Art, New York; Frieze,
London; and Kiran Nadar Museum, Delhi,
among others.
Nanna Debois Buhl (b. 1975 in Aarhus,
Denmark) lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
working as a visual artist. She studied at
the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam,
Holland, the Royal Danish Academy of
Fine Arts, Copenhagen and the Whitney
Museum of American Art Independent
Study Program, USA. Her work has been
exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, New York;
Lunds Konsthall, Sweden; and Herning
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark,
among others.
in Beirut. His work has been exhibited at
the Kennedy Center Washington, D.C.;
Tetra Art Space, Japan; and The Guild Art
Gallery, India, among others.
Rania Rafei (b. 1979 in Lebanon) lives
in Lebanon working as a filmmaker and
installation artist. Her work is in directing
documentaries, awareness spots, and music videos about the subject of disability.
Rafei studied at the Lebanese Academy of
Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at
Tetouan International Festival, Morocco;
Filmfest Hamburg, Germany; and Cairo
Women's Film Festival, Egypt, among
others.
Pia Arke (b. 1958!–2007, Greenland) lived
in Denmark and worked as a photographer,
painter, and installation artist. Most of her
artistic work deals with motifs from her
childhood in Greenland and the Danish
colonization impact on the Greenlandic
culture. Arke studied at the Royal Danish
Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Her
work has been exhibited at the National
Museum, Denmark, among others.
Regina Jose Galindo (b. 1974 in Guatemala
City, Guatemala) lives in Guatemala City
working as a visual and performance artist.
She is known for pushing her body to the
limit to create powerful public works that
challenge the inequalities and atrocities
that have become commonplace across
the globe. Galindo participated in artist
residency programs at Chateau Trebesice,
Czech Republic; Le Plateau, France; and
Artpace, Texas. Her work has been exhibited at the Moscow Biennial, Russia; the
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design,
Costa Rica; and Tate Modern, London,
among others.
Raed Rafei (b. 1977 in Lebanon) lives
in Lebanon working as a journalist and
filmmaker. He has been writing for the
Los Angeles Times covering the security
situation in Lebanon with features on
social and political issues. Rafei studied
at the American University of Beirut and
the City University of New York Journalism
School, USA. His work has been exhibited
at Printemps du cinéma arabe, France;
Doclisboa, Portugal; and Delhi International
Film Festival, India, among others.
Robert Ochshorn (b. in 1987 in California,
USA) lives in California working as a media
and computer researcher. He is working
on media interfaces for extending human
perceptive and expressive capabilities.
Ochshorn studied at Cornell University,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and Harvard University, USA. His work has
been exhibited at the Berlin Documentary
Forum, Germany and International Short
Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, among
others.
Raed Yassin (b. 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon)
lives in Beirut working as an artist and
musician. He creates work, which often
originates from an examination of his personal narratives and their position within
a collective history, through the lens of
consumer culture and mass production.
Yassin studied at the Institute of Fine Arts
Sarah Vanagt (b. 1976) lives in Belgium
working as an artist and filmmaker. She
makes documentaries, video installations
and photos, in which she combines her interest for history with her interest for (the
origins of) cinema. Vanagt studied at the
University of Sussex, UK and the National
Film and Television School, London. Her
work has been exhibited at the Venice
Biennale, Italy; Kunstenfestivaldesarts,
Brussels; and the TriContinental Film
Festival, South Africa, among others.
Sergio de la Torre (b. in Mexico) lives in
San Francisco, USA working as a visual
artist. His works have focused on issues
regarding diaspora, tourism, labor and surveillance technologies. De la Torre studied
at the University of Carlo Bodi, Urbino,
Italy and the University of Cambridge,
England. His work has been exhibited at
the International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey;
in the Cleveland Performance Art Festival,
Ohio, USA; and the Atelier Frankfurt,
Germany, among others.
Stéphane Gérard (b. 1987 in France) lives
in Paris, France working as a film artist.
His early video experimentations focus on
misuse of prevailing images and audiovisual archives. Gérard studied at University
of Marne-la-Vallée, France. His work has
been screened at FID Marseille, France;
MIX NYC, New York, USA; and Massimadi,
Montréal, Canada.
William E. Jones (b. 1962 in Ohio, USA)
lives in Los Angeles working as an artist,
filmmaker, and writer. His work has been
exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; and Musée du
Louvre, Paris, among others.
List of works
Akram Zaatari
Red Chewing Gum, 2000
SD Video, 11 min
Andrea Geyer
I know I said, 2012- ongoing
Inkjet prints on paper, 80 x 120cm
Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida
Populus Tremula, 2010
16mm, 9 min
Benj Gerdes
Years of Saturdays, 2015
HD Video, 11 min
Benjamin Tiven
A Third Version of the Imaginary, 2012
HD Video, 12 min
Benjamin Tiven
Daniel arap Moi at a Public
Presentation, Unknown Date, 2013
Jomo Kenyatta, Independence Day
Parade, December 12, 1973, 2013
Anonymous, at the winner’s podium of
an auto rally, date unknown, 2013
3 Archival inkjet prints,
each 28 cm x 35 cm
Matthew Buckingham
Image of Absalon To Be Projected Until
It Vanishes, 2001
Slide Projection and Text
Michelle Dizon
Civil Society, 2008
3-channel SD video installation, 37 min
Nanna Debois Buhl
There is This House, 2008
16mm Transferred to Digital Video,
8 min
Pia Arke & Anders Jørgensen
Tupilakosaurus, 1999
SD Video, 9 min
Raed Yassin
Disco, 2010
SD Video, 5 min
Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei
Prologue, 2011
HD Video, 49 min
Regina José Galindo
Tierra (Earth), 2013
HD Video, 33 min
Katya Sander
Untitled (the world), 2012
HD Video, 17 min
Robert Ochshorn
A Little Bit More Stable, 2015
HD Video, 3 min
Kajsa Dahlberg
Reach, Grasp, Move, Position,
Apply Force, 2015
HD video, 40 min
A Room of One’s Own /
A Thousand Libraries (Ett eget rum /
Tusen bibliotek), 2006
Book piece in an edition of 1000 copies
Sergio De La Torre
Nuevo Dragon City, 2009
HD Video, 13 min
Lasse Lau
Sound from the Hallways, 2012
HD Video, 25 min
Archival Impulse, 2006
Digital print
Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire
The Wave, 2012
HD Video, 20 min
William E Jones
Killed Photographs, 2015
9 Inkjet prints on paper, 20 x 25 cm
Denne publikation er udgivet i forbindelse
med udstillingen / This book has been
published in connection with:
Forsidefoto!/!Cover
Kajsa Dahlberg, A Room of One’s Own /
A Thousand Libraries, 2006
Rewriting Histories
06.11!–!20.12.2015
Kurateret af!/!Curated by
Benj Gerdes & Lasse Lau
Bagsidefoto!/!Back cover
Michelle Dizon, Civil Society, 2008
Fotografisk Center
Bygning 55
Staldgade 16
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WWW.fotografiskcenter.dk
Udstillingsdesign!/!Exhibition design
Joel Diamant
Mette Lindberg
Tekst!/!Text
Kristine Kern
Benj Gerdes
Lasse Lau
Siri B. Lundgaard
Oversættelse!/!Translation
Lotte Hoelgaard Christensen
Susanne Jacobi
Kristine Kern
Redaktion!/!Edit
Kristine Kern
Nilas Andersen
Siri B. Lundgaard
Design
Nilas Andersen
Tryk!/!Print
Skive Offset
Oplag / Editions
800
© 2015 Fotografisk Center
& 978-87-90362-64-5
Tak til / thanks to Ben Coonley, Zach
Poff, Kamilla Martinsen, Viborg Kunsthal,
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Anne Liiberg
og Emilie-Sofie Jarltoft(DGI-byen!/
Øksnehallen), Lone Garde (Institut
Francais) & Mads Quistgaard.
LIU Post Acknowledgements
Support from Long Island University,
Post Campus Faculty Research Committee
and College of Arts, Communications,
& Design Dean’s Office Travel Funds
Fotografisk Center modtager støtte
fra Københavns Kommune og Statens
Kunstfond.
Fotografisk Center receives support from
The City of Copenhagen and the Danish
Arts Foundation
& 978-87-90362-64-5
Akram Zaatari
Andrea Geyer
Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida
Benjamin Tiven
Inuk Silis Høegh
Katya Sander
Kajsa Dahlberg
Lasse Lau
Lin + Lam
Matthew Buckingham
Michelle Dizon
Naeem Mohaiemen
Nanna Debois Buhl
Pia Arke & Anders Jørgensen
Raed Yassin
Rania Rafei & Raed Rafei
Regina José Galindo
Robert Ochshorn
Sergio De La Torre
Stéphane Gérard
Sarah Vanagt & Katrien Vermeire
William E Jones